The United States’ top defense officials on Tuesday urged more nations to provide more weaponry, at a faster pace, to Ukraine as it prepares for the next phase of its defense against Russian aggressors.
told reporters after the day-long meeting here with delegations from more than 40 nations gathered to hear the latest military assessments of the conflict and coordinate their efforts to aid Ukraine. “The briefings today laid out clearly why the coming weeks will be so crucial for Ukraine,” Austin said.
Austin also addressed what the effort to aid Ukraine “will take from our defense industrial bases. That means dealing with the tremendous demand that we’re facing for munitions and weapons platforms,” he said, in some cases raising questions about “meeting our own requirements, and those of our Allies and partners.”
Outside the Ukraine meeting, U.S. and foreign officials outlined the changes Russia’s invasion has brought. Finnish Brig. Gen. Sami Nurmi, whose country shares a border of more than 800 miles with Russia, explained that preinvasion, only 23 percent of Finns favored joining NATO. Both Austin and Milley addressed Austin’s comments, following his Sunday trip to Kyiv with Blinken, that the United States hopes the war in Ukraine will result in a militarily “weakened” Russia.“We’ve been pretty clear from the outset,” Austin said at his news conference. “We do want to make it harder for Russia to threaten its neighbors.
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